Please post your milestones. I want to open this thread, because some of you joined on 2/29/2000 and only get to let us know your achievements every four years. Richard this tread is dedicated with you in mind. :)

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This month I also start My 8th year. ;-]

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Thank you JIM, care to post your milestones?

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Thank You uli - that's such a nice thing to do

Originally Joined SETI on February 29, 2000

a friend - Drew Lesso was crunchin' SETI on 'is MAC

and i asked him where he got the Program from - the rest is History . . .

< recently passed the 200,000 Credit with over 1000 RAC

> aiming for the 250,000 Credit in the near future

Again - Thanks for the Mention uli . . .

richard

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'Twas so long ago, but not so far away
that a busy young lad while off on his way
read about a new project, not so long undertaken
that searched through the stars
for signals that others just might have been makin'.

Your computer, it said, is just all that you need
to help search through the stars with plenty of speed
and help us to look for this particular behaviour
and in return we will give you
this most nifty screen saver.

A computer, the lad thought, I do not have one now
but I'll build one and then I can find out just how
these fellows that search though the stars and the skies
and can look for these signals
not seen by our eyes.

A fast one, he thought, that would be just the best.
And he went out and bought a new 233mmx.
Just the thing for researching those signals I'll bet.
'Cuz he knew at the time
'Twas the fastest thing yet!

He fiddled and fuddled and tinkered and cursed.
He poked and he prodded and threw things and worse.
And just as he almost gave up from the strife,
He heard the thing 'beep'
and it then came to life....

And he learned dos and windows and the things that were written,
and the passwords and keywords and the secrets laying hidden.
And finally when the effort had almost made him blind
he typed in 'Find me Seti'
wondering what it was it would find.

The hard drive it clicked and it clacked and it roared,
a program downloaded, the cpu usage soared...
A new 'puter crunching, away on a quest.
And the young lad just smiled...
"Let it run, that is best".

A few months from now, I'll see eight years a running
that Seti search program, so precise and so cunning.
Though the answers we sought then those eight years ago
are still enticing us now
to go where we must go....

And so there's the story of a young lad gone Seti.
Much older and wiser now, the lives touched of many.
The computers are faster, and he has written this song,
to say thanks to Seti, and to those who have stayed,
To smile and say bravo to who have been at it this long.


Top notch, fellow crunchers!!!!!

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Congratulations to Uli & Jim - Eight Years has slipped by so rapidly eh ;)

< and to Mark - nice writing Sir

The SETI@home Class of Feb 29 2000

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uli - is this your old link? No. 11) - U.L.I. - Tue Feb 29 17:33:40 2000 - Thu Dec 15 22:40:07 2005 - 14796 - 7.142 years - 4 hr 13 min 41.5 sec - Germany

< ps - let it 'rock&roll' for a few seconds - and then the link comes up . . . ;)))

> it's from this Link: No. 11
The SETI@home Class of Feb 29 2000

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Wonderful poem Mark, thank you.
No Richard, that is not me. I originally joined Seti in 1999, May or June, then had a computer crash. Couldn't remember the original log in, so that is why the new date is 2/6/00. Some top crunshers are part of my group.
Upgraded to a dual core in January and hope to have 40,000 cedits today.

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My STATS;
Total credit 442,532
Recent average credit 1,196.24
SETI@home classic workunits 2,510
SETI@home classic CPU time 31,609 hours

Thanks for the song Mark!

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

8 years on 28 April...

- Just cracked 300K SETI credit
- RAC of 1600+
- Lots of new friends of similar temperment...

Cheers!

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Orwell

Congrats Sir William!

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Congrats Sir William!

Ditto Sir . . .

< @ uli - thought you might get a 'kick' out of the link - it's like an earthquake eh . . . (NOT so funny when we 'ave to deal w/ real ones ja!)

< @ MArk - see ya in the Future Post for July ;)

< @ Jim - as usaual - carry on Sir!

> anybody else here from February 2000 ?

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i would like to say way to go to all you
and i liked to read how u got sartted doing seti me i saw something about it on space.com did a search and put it on the computer and here i am
have a goodone your way

Congrats Sir William!

Ditto Sir . . .

< @ uli - thought you might get a 'kick' out of the link - it's like an earthquake eh . . . (NOT so funny when we 'ave to deal w/ real ones ja!)

< @ MArk - see ya in the Future Post for July ;)

< @ Jim - as usaual - carry on Sir!

> anybody else here from February 2000 ?

Richard.......I suspect that I will still be here in July.......
Fireworks maybe?? Eh?

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To Mark,
Of course I will try and be the first one to open a thread in July for you too. It will 8 years with Seti for you and I will be 8 years old ;) .... July is a great month .
Keep those poems coming and the kitty posts.

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Congratulations to Each of You during this Month of February 2008 - Eight Years Crunchin' . . .

Note: Dr. Anderson 'fixed' my WU Credits back @ the end of the Classic Days, re: 1111 WU's before i shut it down

(Originally 'Lost' all other Credits previously - never figured out 'what' happened to 'em ;)


< Account data for uli

No. 236 - uli - JOINED: Sun Feb 6 06:13:59 2000 - 600 - 1.210 years


< Account data for Jim_S

No. 97 - Jim - JOINED: Wed Feb 23 20:29:21 2000 - 2510 - 3.608 years


< Account data for Dr. C.E.T.I.

No. 2455 - Richard W Lubrich Jr - JOINED: Tue Feb 29 05:57:06 2000 - 1,111 - 29,308 hours

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> others that Joined The SETI@home Class of Feb 29 2000

253) - garfield, 274) - Crackhead, 344) - Clinton, 594) - Santa, 992) - Walker, 1172) - jack the ripper, 1492) - FoxMulder, 2011) - Scully, 2074) - Clint Walker, 2344) - rambo

< interestin' lot that day eh . . . ;)))

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It been a great 8 years as part of the Seti crunchers. Got 600 units done in Seti Classic and converted to Boinc in September 2005 reluctantly. Upgraded in January of 2008 and the new system has already processed almost 17,000 cobblestones in five weeks. It took my old one 28 month to crunch not quite 25,000.
I am at 92.500 in the Seti rank, crunched a little more than 88% of my fellow members, a smidegon over 82% for the United States and at number 38 with regards to my sign up date.
Posting this more for myself, so a year from now, I can again see my milestones.
Please donate, I have noticed quite a drop and this is a great hobby. Come payday, I will be sending another check, hope you can too.

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Congratulations uli - 8 Years & Countin' . . .

No. 236 - uli - JOINED: Sun Feb 6 06:13:59 2000 - 600 - 1.210 years

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Thanks Richard, I will see you on the 29th.

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